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January 31, 2011

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I think this is a sign that the White House takes Romney seriously, rather than the opposite: They never miss an opportunity to poke at him.

Romney "did some interesting things there on health care, you know," Axelrod said. "We got some good ideas from him." As governor, Romney signed into law a sweeping set of health care reforms that share some similarities with Obama's federal health care reform law.

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Well, it's the truth. The republican party gave birth to the individual mandate in the 1990's when republican senators Hatch and Grassley along with other republican senators, introduced their health care legislation. Then we have republican Romney actually signing the individual mandate into law in MA. Do you really need more proof that the republican actually support the individual mandate, the only reason that they're against now is because they're against anything that Obama likes, they put party before country.

It's not about the individual mandate. (Disclosure: I'm a moderate Independent)

It's about direct government insurance. It is NOT about a mandate to buy private insurance. I support people not using the ER at my expense - I prefer to help them acquire their own insurance. The mandate will not move us in the direction of the NHS in Britain, the expanded Medicare and Medicaid programs will. Don't be intentionally ignorant. There are big differences.

In Bobby Jindal's response to SOTU a few years ago, (by invitation of the RNC) he expressed his opposition to the term "pre-existing condition" and said it should be done away with. The only way to do that is an individual mandate. While that may be an issue to the Republicans furthest to the right (right of Jindal is pretty far right) the objection most rational Republicans have is not with being forced to pay their own way, it is government-run insurance. It is the incremental steps toward single-payer.

I can't decide whether most people that claim not to be able to tell the difference between the two plans are dishonest or stupid.

Romney was the creator of Obamacare. A real Republican never would have accepted anything socialist a Democratic legislature tried to force on him. Look at Christie, facing down his own legislature in New Jersey. But Mitt "Never Fear! Your RINO Is Here!" Romney knowingly shaped a socialist plan he dreamed of expanding to the federal level.

YOU LIE,
YOU are the liar. Whether mittens opposed it or not, he signed it into law.
Have you ever heard of a veto pen, the thing that Dubya did not use for 6 years?????
IF mittens had opposed it, he could have used the veto pen!!!!
YOU LIE!!!!!!!

To be fair, Sharon, Mitt did veto several individual items in the plan that the legislature overrode.

I don't get how Democrats can hate a guy that can bost that he insured 98% of all people in a state with private insurance and closed a budget deficit he inherited and created a surplus all at the same time. And I REALLY just don't understand how Republicans, who supposedly support personal responsibility, can complain about a mandate to buy insurance.

Someone who believes in personal responsibility must support everyone buying insurance, just as they believe everyone should pay taxes. Its about personal responsibility. I don't want to pay for everyone else's Emergency Room visits because they couldn't afford the colonoscopy or mammogram. If you do, then you are the socialist. And if you think that a hospital can demand payment from someone who is bleeding or unconscious on a stretcher before treating them, then you are an idiot.

nerdalert,
It is because mittens is a flip-flopper. What he was for yesterday, he will be against today. You can NEVER trust a flip-flopper. If democrats are FOR something, he will be against it. whether it is good or not. Just that simple.

Sharon says Mitt Romney is now against his own plan because... Democrats are for it, regardless of what he may claim in public, Sharon knows better. Even though all the people on the far right say they won't vote for him unless he denounces it, and to this point he has refused to do the politically expedient thing and say "it was a mistake," becasue that would be a lie and he knows it. He's still a flip flopper.

I might ask you the same question - if Democrats are for his plan, and are for Pay-As-You-Go, then why do they hate him so much? Oh yeah, because he, as president, will change all of our abortion laws. All the far right-wing conspiracy theorists believe he will change them as well. But you know better than that. After all, they sound CRAZY when they spout these conspiracy theories. Not smart, like when you do it...